Södra Cell to Install New Valmet Wood Chipping Plant at Mörrum

Södra Cell, Sweden, has ordered form Valmet, Finland, a new wood chipping plant for its Mörrum pulp mill in Sweden. The delivery is part of Södra Cell's project to increase pulp production at the Mörrum mill. The order is valued at around EUR 20 million.

Valmet's delivery will consist of a complete woodroom including two wood debarking and chipping lines, bark handling, and chip conveying systems. Startup of the new wood chipping plant is scheduled for spring of 2016.

Valmet's delivery is part of Södra Cell's approximately EUR 70 million investment to boost pulp output at Mörrum, where Södra currently operates two parallel pulp lines for the production of softwood pulp and textile pulp (dissolving pulp). The investment includes a new wood chipping plant and one of the mill's two pulp lines will be upgraded. The investment is expected to increase production from 380,000 metric tpy to about 425,000 metric tpy.

In June, Valmet announced it also will supply the major rebuild and new equipment to Södra Cell's Värö pulp mill, where Södra Cell in making an investment of more than EUR 400 million to increase the Värö mill's pulp production capacity from 425,000 metric tpy to 700,000 metric tpy.

Södra is an economic association with a membership base of 51,000 forest owners in southern Sweden. Södra has built up a considerable production capacity of paper pulp, wood products, and biofuels. Södra employs about 3,800 people and has four business areas: Södra Skog, Södra Cell, Södra Timber, and Södra Interiör. Södra Cell is one of the largest players in the world in the area of softwood pulp and operates three pulp mills in Sweden—Mörrum, Mönsterås, and Värö. Södra Cell Mörrum is the only Södra mill to produce textile pulp.